In many high-income democracies, the explosion of public borrowing over the past two decades has made it clear enough that a budgetary course correction is required, especially when analysis is ...

We should never take economic growth for granted. As Oxford University economist Daniel Susskind writes in his 2024 book, Growth: A History and a Reckoning, “Three facts, simple but remarkable, have ...

With the advent of the Internet and social media, the introduction of smartphones, and the continued proliferation of other online technologies, pornography consumption has changed dramatically in our ...

Earlier this week we posted an article on long-term trends in US defense spending. Surprisingly, we found that inflation adjusted per capita defense expenditures have remained essentially unchanged ...

There are serious issues with America’s federal budget. Very serious issues. Where to begin? Let me first start with the process of budgeting, that process of drafting a plan for raising revenue ...

When a U.S. president bestows major non-NATO ally status on countries, it is not just an honorific.The status bestows privileges on the recipient, allowing it favorable access to materials and ...

What distinguishes the current situation is the unusually large constellation of major economic and geopolitical downside risks. That constellation makes the current consensus view of a continued ...

A video from August of 2024 of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) emerita Professor Vivian Burt explaining her resignation at a Regents meeting from her position due to anti-Semitism is ...

Since our nation's founding, American Catholics have confronted the question of whether one can be a faithful Catholic and a devoted citizen of the United States.

This project assesses the potential consequences for defense spending if Russia were to defeat Ukraine and demonstrates that the aid the United States currently provides to Ukraine through the ...